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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
They'll only get to claim a hollow victory because AGI is impossible to rigorously define. None of the regulating bodies of consumer products will be able to define it better than academics. They'll use marketing to make those cla
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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
It's not the only thing, but it's a big one
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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
Cheaper labor, for sure
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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
>Are those excess returns not work? What are they? Normally you'd get a low percentage fee instead of getting all of the returns unless you got that capital for free (inheritance?), so yes, you are a worker compared to the person co
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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
>In writing tasks Qwens hallucinations and bullshitting are much easier to spot because it doesn't have the sleek vocabulary and wordsmithing skills to disguise its ignorance. Can't wait until we just remove the language from t
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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
"read code" and "debug code" will still be valuable and one of the ways you learn that is "write code". You might have gotten people who can only write code from cheap contracting places, but the companies choo
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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
>But does it actually matter? Probably not, because most of us are boring. Most of us don't have stalkers. Most of us don't have government clearances. Most of us aren't politically adjacent, significant, or know someone w
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by hnthrow0287345 3mo ago
>What kind of 'useful'? Someone says it's useful to them. If you get a consensus where >50% find it useful, then it's probably useful.
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
>I think Sam Altman is an asshole and I prefer to spend my money elsewhere. That's why he chose the OpenAI logo
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
If anything though, this shows that at least tech driven hype bubbles can stay around way longer than we think if we are looking at it from a product POV. This just means short sellers might have a hard time sinking a hype-category stock wi
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
This is why the 'craft' should be left to open source for most commercial software. The business reality just doesn't care for it. Only when you have a PR problem does the business switch back to signalling quality, like Micr
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
All we can really do is point and laugh. Boards don't listen to workers, and I bet most boards will be okay with a little spending oopsie-daisy because it was 'try shit and see if it works out'
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
I doubt it, but I've seen dumber stuff like laying off people because they think AI will replace them
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
PE has a bad reputation, maybe for LBOs, maybe for buying up doctors' offices and retirement homes, and hospitals and making them objectively worse in terms of patient care. My family doctor underwent that along with several of her loc
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
That's probably the goal You get nothing being the go-to person vs. the person that just does the job
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
That's heinous. Their firm should stay away from sports car brands.
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
This would be more meaningful if, perhaps, we had to swear an oath to it before being able to practice. And practitioners would be treated more seriously if everyone knew we swore that oath. And the legal utility as accountability and defen
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
I just do business apps and websites, and it pays the bills, but none of it is really interesting since a lot of it involves recurring patterns and simply fixing other peoples' past mistakes (and future people will probably fix mine).
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
My guess is this was brought up but getting the product out there was more important to the business so it got ignored. Now that it's a problem for them, they get to hide behind an "oops sorry, let's fix the really obvious th
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
>They probably shouldn't have ignored the public sentiment. Company goes under and they just start something else. There's no real consequences. This is a club, not a market.
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
More like developers who give quality away for free then are left wondering why businesses who make millions still end up squeezing the life out of them.
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
Fast food might be the right approach if it's a business that prefers speed to maintainability, and they might move towards that with LLMs. I wish more developers would go with it instead of fight it. It's not like it's a per
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
"They clearly stare into the black void to make themselves feel better!"
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
If they can't at least imagine the golden path themselves and write it down, they shouldn't be in charge of the product because they will be unlikely to understand any other in depth conversations about it. And I have no idea how
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
Firing people is problematic. I'd be okay with it if the economy wasn't utter trash. It's way better to do the work upfront and prefer false negatives over false positives. Even better would be if we had a well-respected cred
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
It doesn't. It's just a low-end skill filter that got really popular. It could have easily been replaced by other tests like is this word a palindrome.
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
I have seen precisely zero consequences for these people because they usually leave after not too long and go somewhere else, sometimes for higher pay. The slower folks end up getting the worse code and no raises in exchange for comradery.
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
This stuff helps prevent the bubble popping, which means when they want the bubble to pop, they stop announcing these deals, giving them a great lever of profit. Crazy how they can just lie to this extent without consequences. Or still get
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
Same for most executives and upper management being unable to relate because companies stopped promoting within and no longer reward loyalty and seniority. They see you as something that could be dismissed instead of someone that might run
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by hnthrow0287345 4mo ago
That doesn't really work if you have as many frequent layoffs as Meta has had as everyone will be thinking about it constantly, along with the collapse of one of its major endeavors (Metaverse) and people realizing that the cash bonfir

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